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Born
Richard Anthony Wolf

(1946-12-20) December 20, 1946 (age 77)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Other namesRichard D. Wolf
Education University of Pennsylvania (BA)
Occupation(s)Television writer, director, executive producer, creator
Employer Wolf Entertainment
Known for
Spouses
  • Susan Scranton
    (m. 1970;div. 1983)
  • Christine Marburg
    (m. 1983;div. 2005)
  • Noelle Lippman
    (m. 2006;div. 2019)
    [1]
Children5

Richard Anthony Wolf (born December 20, 1946 [2] ) is an American film and television producer, best known for his Law & Order franchise. Since 1990, the franchise has included six police/courtroom dramas and four international spinoffs. He is also co-creator and executive producer of the Chicago franchise, which since 2012, has included four Chicago-based dramas, and the co-creator and executive producer of the FBI franchise, which since 2018, has also become a franchise after spinning off two additional series.

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Wolf has also written four books. The first, the non-fiction volume Law & Order: Crime Scenes, is a companion to the Law & Order television series. [3] The Intercept,The Execution, and The Ultimatum are works of fiction in a thriller series featuring an NYPD detective named Jeremy Fisk. [4]

Wolf has won numerous awards, including an Emmy Award, being inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame, and receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Early life and education

Wolf was born in Manhattan to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother of Irish descent. [5] [6] [7] [8] As a boy, he was an altar server at the local Catholic parish. [9]

Wolf attended Saint David's School, The Gunnery, [10] [11] and Phillips Academy. [6] He subsequently attended the University of Pennsylvania (class of 1969), where he was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity. [5]

Career

Advertising

Wolf worked as an advertising copywriter at Benton & Bowles creating commercials for Crest toothpaste, including the slogan "You can't beat Crest for fighting cavities." He is also credited with the campaign "I'm Cheryl, fly me" for National Airlines. Yet despite his success in copywriting, all the while he was writing screenplays in the hopes of a film career. It was at this time that he briefly collaborated on a screenplay with Oliver Stone, who was a struggling screenwriter at the time.

Initial screenwriting success

He moved to Los Angeles after a few years and had three screenplays produced; one of these films, Masquerade (1988), featuring Rob Lowe and Meg Tilly, gained notable acclaim. [12] He started his television career as a staff writer on Hill Street Blues and was nominated for his first Emmy Award for the episode "What Are Friends For?", on which he was the only writer. While working on Hill Street Blues, Wolf became close friends with Tom Fontana, then writing for the series St. Elsewhere , produced in the same building, at the same time. [13] Wolf moved from Hill Street Blues to Miami Vice , where he was a writer and co-producer for the third and fourth seasons. [14]

Law & Order franchise

Wolf's original series Law & Order ran from 1990 to 2010, and was revived in 2022. It has surpassed Gunsmoke as longest-running dramatic show in American television history, making it one of television's most successful franchises. It has been nominated for the most consecutive Emmy Awards of any primetime drama series. Wolf serves as creator and executive producer of the current Law & Order drama series from Wolf Entertainment and NBCUniversal Television – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (which as of September 5, 2024 is the longest-running scripted primetime drama, having aired 551 episodes, breaking the original Law & Order count of 456 (now 501 through the twenty-third season), and beating both the original Law & Order and Gunsmoke in number of seasons).

Wolf also was creator and executive producer for the four spinoff shows in the franchise that have been canceled – Law & Order: Criminal Intent , Law & Order: Trial by Jury , Law & Order: UK , and Law & Order: LA . [15] Along with Kevin Arkadie, he co-created the police drama New York Undercover , which ran on the Fox Broadcasting Company Network from 1994 to 1999. He also served as executive producer of the series. He was the creator and executive producer of NBC's courtroom reality series Crime & Punishment , which chronicled real-life cases prosecuted by the San Diego District Attorney's office. Many of Wolf's series have intersected with the Law & Order franchise in some fashion, and the Law & Order series have been adapted into several foreign versions. Wolf's company also produced Twin Towers , the 2003 Academy Award–winning Short Documentary about two brothers, one a policeman and the other a fireman, who were killed in the line of duty on September 11, 2001. Wolf was also involved with When You're Strange , the production of a theatrical documentary about the rock band The Doors. [16]

Organized Crime

On March 31, 2020, Wolf announced that a spin-off series was ordered by NBC to launch in the 2020–21 season, with Christopher Meloni reprising his role as Elliot Stabler from SVU after a nine-year absence. The initial series order was for 13 episodes. [17] On June 2, 2020, it was announced that the series would be called Law & Order: Organized Crime and that showrunner Craig Gore had been fired. [18]

Hate Crimes

Wolf announced that NBC placed an order of 13 episodes for Law & Order: Hate Crimes, a new installment of the franchise. [19] On March 4, 2019, NBC announced that the series would be redeveloped to flesh out the concept and would not be spun out of SVU as announced. [20] On June 5, 2020, the series of Hate Crimes was moved to NBC's streaming service, Peacock, at least partly due to language concerns. [21]

For the Defense

On May 3, 2021, Wolf announced that NBC ordered yet another installment of the franchise, Law & Order: For the Defense, and that its showrunner would be Carol Mendelsohn. [22] It was later announced that the show would not move forward.

Chicago franchise

Wolf developed Chicago Fire, a drama about a group of men and women working at the Chicago Fire Department. The series was picked up by NBC in May 2012, [23] and premiered on October 10, 2012, with meek numbers in the ratings and minimal reviews in the first few weeks before spiking to NBC's #2 scripted drama series, under Revolution. [24] In March 2013, NBC announced intentions for a spin-off of Chicago Fire revolving around the Chicago Police Department. [25] When that series Chicago P.D. premiered, Derek Haas, Michael W. Brandt, and Matt Olmstead became executive producers, under Wolf. [26] Two subsequent shows, Chicago Med which premiered in 2015, and Chicago Justice whose one season began and ended in 2017, followed in Chicago P.D.'s wake.

FBI franchise

In 2018, Wolf became executive producer of the CBS drama FBI , starring Law & Order cast members Jeremy Sisto and Alana de la Garza and also Sela Ward. [27] FBI has since had two spinoffs ( FBI: Most Wanted , and FBI: International ), giving Wolf his third franchise.

Beginning in the 2021-2022 TV season, all three of Wolf's franchises have their own night of programming: FBI Tuesdays on CBS (original series, Most Wanted, International), Chicago Wednesdays on NBC (Med, Fire, P.D.), and Law & Order Thursdays on NBC (original series revival, SVU and Organized Crime). [28]

Other work

In 2012, Wolf developed the unscripted show Cold Justice, a documentary drama, for TNT. [29] He also has written three novels whose central character is NYPD Detective Jeremy Fisk: The Intercept, The Execution, and The Ultimatum. [30] In 2024, Wolf released a documentary miniseries with Netflix called Homicide: New York. [31]

In May 2021, NBC ordered a docuseries LA Fire and Rescue. The series followed the firefighters of the Los Angeles County Fire Department and will be executive produced by Wolf. [32] This series was cancelled by NBC after one season. [33]

Future projects

Wolf's future projects for NBC are an American adaption of the United Kingdom psychological legal drama series Injustice [34] as well as a drama series revolving around a satanic cult, tentatively titled The Church. Wolf is writing the latter project with Howard Franklin. [35] [36] Wolf also has an untitled pilot about an insurance investigator on USA Network. [37]

With Wolf pursuing projects other than Law & Order, he and current Law & Order: Special Victims Unit showrunner/executive producer Warren Leight sometimes discuss the future of the Law & Order franchise and revitalizing it; Leight commenting "(Dick Wolf and I) sometimes talk in general terms of where (the franchise) could go. I'm curious to see if there's another iteration somewhere down the line." [38]

Art collecting

In December 2023, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the promised gift of over 200 works of art from Wolf, including Old Master paintings, sculptures and drawings, as well as funds to endow two galleries with his name. [39] Wolf reported that his appreciation for art started when he was a child visiting Met on his way home from school. [40]

Honors

Wolf's personal honors include the Award of Excellence from the Banff Television Festival, the 2002 Creative Achievement Award from NATPE; the Anti-Defamation League's Distinguished Entertainment Industry Award, the Leadership and Inspiration Award from the Entertainment Industries Council, the Governor's Award by the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the 1997 achievement award from the Caucus for Producers, Writers, and Directors, the 1998 Television Showman of the Year Award from the Publicists Guild of America, the 2002 Tribute from the Museum of Television and Radio, and a 2003 Special Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. On March 29, 2007, Wolf received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7040 Hollywood Boulevard. [41] In 2013, Wolf was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. Wolf is also an Honorary Consul general of Monaco [42] and is actively involved in the principality's prestigious annual Television Festival.

Political involvement

It was reported that Wolf contributed to Fred Thompson's campaign for the Republican nomination for president in 2008. The two had worked together since 2002, when Thompson joined the cast of Law & Order playing a district attorney. [43]

Community , a sitcom on NBC from 2009 to 2014 had an episode which parodied Dick Wolf's Law & Order , with the title "Basic Lupine Urology" being a play on his name. Wolf is given a special thanks credit at the end of the episode. [44] [45]

Filmography

Film

Television

Scripted

YearTitleCreatorExecutive ProducerWriterNetwork
1985–1986 Hill Street Blues NoNoYes NBC
1986–1988 Miami Vice NoCo-executiveYes
1989 Gideon Oliver YesYesNo ABC
Christine Cromwell YesYesNo
1990 Nasty Boys YesYesNoNBC
H.E.L.P. YesYesNoABC
1990–2010,
2022–present
Law & Order YesYesYesNBC
1992 Mann & Machine YesYesYes
The Human Factor NoYesNoCBS
1993 South Beach YesYesYesNBC
Crime & Punishment YesCo-executiveYesNBC
1994–1998 New York Undercover YesYesYes Fox
1995 The Wright Verdicts YesYesNoCBS
1996 Swift Justice YesYesNo UPN
1997 Feds YesYesNoCBS
1997–1998 Players YesYesNoNBC
1998 Exiled: A Law & Order Movie YesYesNo
The Invisible ManNoYesNoN/A
1999–present Law & Order: Special Victims Unit YesYesYesNBC
2000 D.C. NoYesNo The WB
Arrest & Trial YesYesNo Syndication
2000–2001 Deadline YesYesYesNBC
2001–2011 Law & Order: Criminal Intent YesYesYesNBC/USA Network
2003 L.A. Dragnet YesYesNoABC
2005–2006 Law & Order: Trial by Jury YesYesYesNBC
2006 Conviction YesYesNo
2009–2014 Law & Order: UK YesYesNo ITV
2010–2011 Law & Order: LA YesYesYesNBC
2012–present Chicago Fire NoYesYes
2014–present Chicago P.D. YesYesYes
2015–present Chicago Med YesYesYes
2017 Chicago Justice YesYesYes
Law & Order True Crime NoYesNo
2018–present FBI YesYesYes CBS
2020–present FBI: Most Wanted NoYesNo
2021–present Law & Order: Organized Crime YesYesYesNBC
FBI: International YesYesNoCBS
2024–present Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent YesNoNo CityTV
TBA Law & Order: Hate Crimes YesYesYes Peacock
On Call [47] [48] YesYesYes Amazon Prime

Unscripted

YearTitleCreatorExecutive ProducerNetwork
2013–present Cold Justice YesYes TNT/Oxygen
2015 Cold Justice: Sex Crimes YesYesTNT
3AM YesYes Showtime
2015–2023 Nightwatch YesYes A&E/NBCUniversal
2017Inside the FBI: New York [49] YesYes USA Network
2017–2020 Criminal Confessions [50] YesYesOxygen
2019Murder for HireNoYes
First Responders LiveNoYes Fox
2023LA Fire and RescueNoYes NBC
2024Homicide: New YorkYesYes Netflix

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Foreign

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